Company

TIAA

Type: nonprofit

TIAA is nonprofit, in Capital markets and wealth management.

What it sells: retirement plans for educators, Nuveen.

In the language of this map it serves 3 solutions — Tax-advantaged retirement accounts, Annuities and Employer retirement matching — which between them relieve 5 human frictions.

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Sells

Tax-advantaged retirement accountsMidlife
AnnuitiesLate career
Employer retirement matchingMidlife

Human frictions it ultimately relieves

Reached through the solutions above, never directly.

Retirement is now visible and must be funded from what remainsMidlife
Peak earning is peak taxationMidlife
Will the money last as long as the lifeLate career
Money must arrive every month without a jobRetirement
The money may run out before the life doesRetirement

Trends favouring it

The retirement savings gap and pension reformAlready large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens.